Jim Wark is an aerial photographer who specializes in capturing unusual landscape and cultural images of North and Central America. Working solo, he has photographed every State and Provence of the USA & Canada and much of C
entral America and the Caribbean.

Jim’s aircraft is a small high-wing bush type with the capability of operating out of small rough landing areas. A full kit of camping gear and provisions are always on board so that remote sites can be used as operating bases. His aerial work began in 1990 upon corporate retirement.

In the past twenty years, Wark has spent more than 8.000 photography hours in the air. To guide him he uses aviation skills gained as a Naval Aviator and airshow pilot, and a love of the earth and its forms gained from a career in mining and geology.

Jim maintains memberships in ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals), SAA (Stock Artists Alliance) and PAPA (Professional Aerial Photographers Association, Intl.). In 2005, Wark was the recipient of PAPA’s first time ever “Lifetime Achievement Award” and in 2006 he was presented with the EPSON/PAPA “Aerial Photographer of the Year Award”.

Jim makes his home with his wife Judy in Pueblo, Colorado, USA..

Five books of Wark’s aerial photography are in print: Colorado, an Aerial Geography of the Highest State, Discovering Lewis & Clark from the Air, A Field Guide to Sprawl, America, A View From Above and America, Flying High.